Alexander Sims grabbed the headlines on his return to the GP3 Series on Friday afternoon by immediately topping free practice at the Nurburgring. The 24-year-old Briton, who last raced in the series in 2011, returned to Status GP in place of Adderly Fong, who is racing in China this weekend. His last open-wheel start was in the Macau GP last year. Sims topped the session with a late flying lap by...

Facu Regalia took pole position in a thrilling GP3 qualifying session at the Nurburgring. The Argentinian ART racer scored his maiden GP3 pole thanks mainly to a blinding first sector time that was over a tenth clear of his rivals. His eventual advantage over Manor's Tio Ellinas was 0.054 seconds. The times constantly tumbled throughout the 30-minute session as teams decided that track position w...

Russian Daniil Kvyat ended GP3 practice in Hungary at the head of the times for MW Arden. He had been quickest for the early part of the session, but was bumped off the top spot by Bamboo's Lewis Williamson. Conor Daly was third fastest for ART, just ahead of teammate Jack Harvey. Robert Visoiu and Trident's Giovanni Venturini rounded out the top six. It was a pretty uneventful session, but a spi...

A stunning late effort by Aaro Vainio earned the Koiranen driver pole position for Saturday's opening GP3 race in Hungary. The session had been dominated by the ART cars of Conor Daly, Jack Harvey and Facu Regalia when the Finn produced his lap of 1m32.811s. Daly responded but fell 0.18 second short. In a frantic end to the session MW Arden's Daniil Kvyat set the third best time, while the pace o...

Carlos Sainz Jr has been excluded from his seventh place finish in the second race of the GP3 Series opening weekend when his MW Arden car was found to be underweight in post-race scrutineering. Local hero Sainz, son of the multiple world rally champion Carlos, had charged from 15th on the grid to seventh in Sunday morning's event, but lost his finishing position. So did fifth-placed David Fumane...

GP3 will make changes to its Pirelli tire compounds in a bid to make them less aggressive and thereby promote more combative racing. It plans to offer a harder range of compounds at each event, starting from the second round of the championship at Valencia on June 15-16. A super-hard compound, the creation of which has been influenced by winter testing, will be introduced at races. Series boss Br...

Kevin Korjus topped the times on the opening day of GP3's test at the Hungaroring. Korjus managed a 1m32.530s in the morning session Ã¢â¬â a new GP3 record in Hungary Ã¢â¬â to head former McLaren Autosport BRDC winner Lewis Williamson and Bamboo teammate Melvin McKee. Rain hit before the start of the afternoon session, with multiple drivers being caught out by the conditions. Status GP's Adderley...

ART's Facu Regalia set the fastest time on the final day of GP3 testing at the Hungaroring. The Argentine set a 1m32.341s with five minutes remaining of a morning session beset by changeable weather conditions. Day one pacesetter Kevin Korjus topped the times early on a damp track, before Bamboo teammate Melvin McKee broke the 1m33s barrier just before mid-session, when showers hit. With 15 minut...